(65 ILCS 5/9-2-95) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-95)
Sec. 9-2-95.
If the collector receives any money for taxes or assessments,
or installments thereof, and gives a receipt therefor, for any land or
parcel of land, and afterwards makes a return that the tax assessment, or
installment thereof was unpaid, to the State officers authorized to sell
land for taxes, or receives the amount so payable after that return has
been made, and that property is sold for any tax, assessment, or
installment thereof which has been so paid and receipted for by himself or
his clerks, the collector and his bondsmen shall be liable to the holder of
the certificate given to the purchaser at that sale for double the amount
of the face of the certificate. This sum may be demanded in 2 years from
the date of the sale, and recovered in any court having jurisdiction of the
amount. The municipality in no case shall be liable to the holder of such a
certificate.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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